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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook shuts down Partner Categories, says it will stop using data from third-party aggregators like Experian to supplement its own data for ad targeting — Facebook says it's going to stop using data from third-party data providers like Experian and Acxiom.
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Tweets: @jeannebright, @antoniogm, @can, @joshconstine, and @azeem
| Channel 4 News: |
Despite claims of data being deleted, leaked cache from a Cambridge Analytica source details personality and psychological profiles of 136K people in Colorado — Facebook said it took steps to ensure harvested campaign data had been “destroyed”. But Channel 4 News has now discovered …
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Engadget, Silicon Republic, Yourstory.com, BBC, TechSpot, Seeking Alpha, and Business Insider
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| Madison Malone Kircher / New York Magazine: |
Facebook says it is investigating reports that user archives from the Download Your Information tool contain videos that users did not post — Have you downloaded your Facebook data archive yet? Facebook makes it easy to obtain a ZIP file of all the data it has on you: your status updates … | Facebook: |
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft splits Windows & Devices Group; Rajesh Jha to lead Experiences & Devices, Scott Guthrie to lead Cloud + AI Platform, Harry Shum to lead AI + Research — To: Microsoft - All Employees; All MS Store Employees FTE — Today, I'm announcing the formation of two new engineering teams …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Terry Myerson, VP of Windows and Devices Group at Microsoft, is leaving as part of a company-wide reorg; Surface chief Panos Panay becomes chief product officer — Microsoft's latest company reorg includes some major changes to its Windows and Devices organization, including the departure of its current leader, Terry Myerson.
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| New York Times: |
A look at how Atlanta is dealing with a ransomware attack, one of the most sustained and consequential cyberattacks ever mounted against a major American city — ATLANTA — The City of Atlanta's 8,000 employees got the word on Tuesday that they had been waiting for: It was O.K. to turn their computers on.
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snap cuts about 100 employees focusing on the advertising side of the business; this downsizing said to be the final step in restructuring process — The reductions this time center on its ad division — Snap Inc. is cutting another set of employees, focusing this time on the advertising side …
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TechCrunch, Axios, Engadget, Quartz, CNET, Variety, Recode, Mashable, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @shaig
| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's education-focused events in 2012 and 2018 show that its vision does not fit with reality because of a lack of understanding of what teachers need — Making The Grade is a weekly series from Bradley Chambers covering Apple in education. Bradley has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009.
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| Bernie Woodall / Reuters: |
Uber reaches settlement with family of autonomous vehicle accident victim killed in Tempe, Arizona — TEMPE, Ariz. (Reuters) - The family of the woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] self-driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with the ride services company …
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| Robin Kurzer / Marketing Land: |
LinkedIn rolls out native video ads in the news feed that auto-play on mute and lets businesses and publishers add video on their Company Pages — LinkedIn is offering businesses two outlets for using video on the platform. Companies can now run native video ad campaigns and include video within …
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TechCrunch, AdExchanger, On MSFT, and The Next Web
| Andrew Gebhart / CNET: |
Google Home devices can now connect to any bluetooth speaker using the Google Home app without the need for a separate Chromecast audio streamer — The Google Home will now let you listen to music on your own Bluetooth speakers — no Chromecast streamer required.| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Researcher finds some VPN providers leak IP addresses via WebRTC bug which was discovered in 2015, but says audit is incomplete and other VPN's need testing — Around 20% of today's top VPN solutions are leaking the customer's IP address via a WebRTC bug known since January 2015 … | Washington Post: |
Ecuador has barred Julian Assange from using the internet from its embassy in London, saying he violated an agreement not to interfere in international affairs — LONDON — Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks, has been barred from using the Internet at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London …
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Motherboard, Engadget, Newser, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Associated Press, CNN, NPR, Reuters, Gizmodo, SlashGear, CNET, and The Guardian. Tweets: @comunicacionec
| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
Trump goes after Amazon on Twitter amid reports of obsession, saying the firm pays “little or no taxes” and is putting “thousands of retailers out of business” — - President Donald Trump went after Amazon in a tweet, saying the online retailer pays “little or no taxes to state & local governments.”
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| Jonathan Swan / Axios: |
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| Windows Developer Blog: |
Microsoft's new private audience option in Dev Center will allow developers to publish an app to Microsoft Store that'll be visible only to people they specify — One of the consistent themes that the Dev Center Team hears from the Windows developer community is that first impressions are important.
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Windows Central, Microsoft Docs, On MSFT, Neowin, MSPoweruser, The Register, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @qmatteoq
| Max A. Cherney / MarketWatch: |
Chinese online animated video streaming company Bilibili raises ~$483M at a valuation of more than $3B in IPO on Nasdaq — Bilibili IPO raises nearly $500 million, stock falls in Wall Street debut on tough day for tech stocks — Bilibili Inc. shares suffered through a rocky first day on Wall Street …
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| Randy Nelson / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Report: ARKit-only app downloads cross 13M in first six months, nearly half of them games; top apps include AR Dragon and measuring app CamToPlan Pro — iPhone and iPad users worldwide have installed more than 13 million augmented reality apps built expressly using Apple's ARKit framework since …
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9to5Mac, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, ValueWalk, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Bumble is suing Tinder owner Match Group for $400M in damages alleging theft of trade secrets through fraudulent behavior; Match sued Bumble earlier this month — Everyone is suing everyone. — Bumble, the popular dating app, and Match Group, which owns another popular dating app, Tinder … | Neer Varshney / The Next Web: |
Ripple donates $29M in XRP to US public school charity DonorsChoose․org, the largest donation it's ever received — Ripple has donated $29 million to fund school supplies for students in public schools in the US. This donation was made through DonorsChoose.org …
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Ripple, PYMNTS.com, EdSurge, The DonorsChoose Blog, Mashable, CBS Dallas, CCN, Crowdfund Insider, Bitcoinist.com, and Bitsonline
Tweets: @donorschoose, @marshallk, @bostonschools, @hunterwalk, and @anildash
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